Katherine DeCelles, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Indifferent or Impartial? Evaluations of Political Neutrality
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$66,324
The Coordination of Deviance in Organizations
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$67,747
The Coordination of Deviance in Organizations
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$86,140

All 8 grants and awards

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Indifferent or Impartial? Evaluations of Political Neutrality

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Ruttan, Rachel L.

Keywords: Organizational Behaviour; Morality and Ethics; Politics; Persuasion; Communications; Attitudes

$66,324

The Coordination of Deviance in Organizations

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: DeCelles, Katherine

Keywords: workplace violence; workplace aggression; coordination; qualitative research

$67,747

The Coordination of Deviance in Organizations

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: DeCelles, Katherine

Keywords: workplace violence; workplace aggression; coordination; qualitative research

$86,140

Breaking Bad: Uncovering the Process of Deviance Coordination

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Ruttan, Rachel

Keywords: Organizational Behaviour; Ethical Behaviour; Organizational Crime; Morality and Ethics; Persuasion; Communications; Attitudes

$65,836

Dehumanization and customer aggression in organizations

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: DeCelles, Katherine

Keywords: organizational behavior; aggression; workplace violence

$86,512

Time to fly(off the handle): an investigation and organizational intervention to reduce antecedents to customer mistreatment

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: DeCelles, Katherine

Keywords: organizational intervention; customer mistreatment; workplace aggression; work stress; job satisfaction

$23,770

Moral motivation for whistleblowing in organizations

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: DeCelles, Katherine

Keywords: ethics; emotion; organizational behaviour

$72,143

Corporate environmentalism versus greenwash: where does the truth lie

Co-investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Walls, Judith L.

Keywords: environmental management; organizational behaviour; decouping; greenwash; managerial commitment; nonverbal communication; impression management; environmental reporting; selective disclosure

$85,349

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor DeCelles, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "The Coordination of Deviance in Organizations" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]